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TIL that all time travel movies are banned in China.
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TIL that women didn’t have the right to vote in one region of Switzerland until 1991. Two women had to file a lawsuit in Swiss Federal Court to gain voting rights in Appenzell Innerrhoden.
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TIL Hong Kong digs up the dead after 6 years for cremation due to lack of space
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TIL some species of carpenter ants can explode at will. As a last resort they contract their abs to rupture their internal glands, resulting in a suicidal burst of corrosive, immobilizing glue.
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TIL about the 18th century sculptor Franz Xaver Messerschmidt and his Character Heads. He sought to capture the 64 grimaces of human expression in the sculptures and believed the work angered “the Spirit of Proportion”.
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TIL that in 1995 JK Rowling’s first Harry Potter book was rejected by 12 publishing companies. And now she is the only billionaire author in the world.